Hot Springs of Mizugami
- Date:
- 1960
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: His enormous output (lived to 102) means most works are accessible. Early black-and-white prints are most valued.
The hot springs of Mizugami — a thermal spa town — are rendered in Hiratsuka's landscape woodblock style, the steam-heated architecture of the onsen district captured with his characteristic structural directness. The 1960 print belongs to his postwar documentation of Japan's resort and spa towns, places where natural and built environments merge around the geological gift of geothermal water.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Hot Springs of Mizugami was created by Hiratsuka Un'ichi (平塚運一) in 1960.
Hot Springs of Mizugami depicts landscapes and architecture.
